Coronavirus News

Powell had been treated over the past few years for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that impairs the body’s ability to fight infections -- and to respond well to vaccines.

Mayor Jerry Demings says the rolling 14-day positivity rate for Orange County is at about 5%, with 74% of eligible residents vaccinated with at least one dose.

Head football coach Nick Rolovich and four assistants were fired for defying the state's vaccine mandate. School officials said a small number of university workers chose not to get vaccinated.

Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID complications. In an announcement on social media, his family said Powell had been fully vaccinated.

The state law allows local governments to use "screening protocols consistent with authoritative or controlling government-issued guidance to protect public health.”

The department's proposal and emergency rule both call for allowing parents to opt out their children from masking and children to attend school if they have been exposed to COVID but are asymptomatic.

According to the state's weekly report issued Friday, 57,859 Floridians have died from COVID-related complications, an increase of 1,192.

A Leon County circuit judge refused to block a state law that bans vaccine passports, explaining that in this particular case the issue is whether the law restricts Bead Abode's free speech or regulates conduct.

Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state's secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.

The CDC says that having every person in attendance vaccinated is important for protecting those who can't get a shot. And it recommends that those who aren't fully vaccinated delay travel.